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A. B. HARRIS FOLDTNG BOX Filed Dec; 10, ,1923

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ASA B. HARRIS, OF VIENNA, ILLINOIS.

1 Medic FOLDING BOX.

Application filed December 10, 1923. Serial No. 679,711.

To an whom it may concern: mounted in the sockets and 8. The hinge Be it known that I, Asa B. HARRIS, a citipins 11 are secured in the sockets 10, but zen of the United States, residing at Vienna, they rotate in the sockets 8. in the county of Johnson and State of Illi- Hinge plates 12 aremounted on the inner 5 nois, have invented a new and useful Foldsurfaces of the front 2 and the back 3. In-

ing Box, of which the following is a specitermediate the ends, the hinge plates 12 are flcation. Y equipped with sockets 14. Reinforcing This invention aims to provide a box plates 15 are mounted on the outer surfaces which may be folded up readily into small of the front 2 and the back 3. Securing 05 compass for shipment, novel means being elements 16 pass through the front 2 and the provided for setting up the box and novel back 3 and engage the reinforcing plates 15 means being provided for reinforcing the and the hinge plates 12. The hinge plates box, a 12 and the reinforcing plates 15 are sub- It is within the province of the disclosure stantially coextensive in area. U shaped 15 to improve generally and to enhance the hinge plates 17 receive the edges of the utility of devices of that type to which the partition 6 and are secured thereto. The invention appertains. hinge pins 17 have sockets 18 disposed be- /Vith the above and other objects in view, tween the sockets 14 of the hinge plates 12 which will appear as the description proon the front 2 and the back 3. Hinge ends 20 ceeds, the invention resides in the combina- 19 are mounted in the sockets 18 and 14 and tion and arrangement of parts and in the are secured in the sockets 14, the pins 19 details of construction hereinafter described being adapted to turn in the sockets 18, and claimed, it being understood that, withn strlps 20 are mounted on the outer in the scope of what is claimed, changes in surfaces of the top 1 and the bottom 4. 25 the precise embodiment of the invention n ermediate strips 21 are similarly mountshown, can be made, without departing ed on the parts 1 and 4. The strips 20 and from the pirit of the inventio 21 have flanges 22 extended along the inner I In the drawings: surfaces of the top 1 and the bottom 4, trans- Figure 1 shown in top plan, a box 0011- versely thereof, as shown at Figure 5. Sockstructed'in accordance with the invention; ets 23 are formed in the strips 20 and 21 at Figure 2 is a front elevation; Figure 3 is a the edges of the top 1 and the bottom 4. section on the line 3-3 of Figure 2; Figure U-sha-ped end plates 24 straddle the upper 4 is a section on the line 44 of Figure 2; and lower edges of the front 2 and the back Figure 5 is a plan wherein the top and the 3. The plates 24 form sockets 25 located so bottom are swung to open position. between the sockets 23. Fixed pins 26 pass The box forming the subject matter of through the sockets 23 and 25 and hinge top this application comprises a top 1, a front to the back 3 and hinge the bottom 4 to the 2, a back 3, a bottom 4 and'ends 5, the terms front 2 along diagonally opposite edges of top, front, back, bottom and the like the box. Removable hinge pins 27 pass on being selected for the purpose of describing through the sockets 23 and 25 and connect the construction of the box, and not with a the top 1 detachably with the front 2, the view to intimating that the box must stand bottom 4 being detachably connected in a in any particular position. A partition 6, similar way with the back 3. is located between the ends The parts By removing the pins 2", the top 1 and 1-2-3-4-56 may be constructed of any the bottom 4 may be swung into open posilight and inexpensive material, such as tion, as shown in Figure 5, on the hinge pins card-board. U-shaped reinforcing plates 7 26, whereupon the back 3 may be folded I'ECQlVB the ends of the front 2 and the back against the front 2, the top 1 being turned 3 and are secured thereto. At their exinto parallelism and the bottom 4 being 1 tremities, the plates 7 are provided on their turned into parallelism with the front 2, the inner flanges with sockets 8. U-shaped rebox being thus compacted so as to occupy inforcing plates 9 receive the extremities of but little space. the ends 5. The plates 9 are supplied inter- Having thus described the invention, mediate their ends with sockets 10. The what I claim. is: sockets 10 are located between the sockets 8 A box comprisin a front, a back, a top, on the plates 7. Hinge plates 11. are it bottom, ends, and a partition located between the endsglU shaped hinge plaites'ireceivin'g the extremities of the front and the back and U-shaped hinge plates receiving the extremities of the ends theplates of the front and the back and the plates of the ends having alternating sockets, hinge pins in the sockets; reinforcing plates applied to the outer surfaces of the front and the back, hinge plates applied to the inner surfaces of the front, and the back, the last'specified hinge plates having sockets, U-shaped hinged plates receiving the extremities of the "partition and provided with sockets alternating With the sockets of the hinge plates on the. inner surfaces of the front and the back, hinge pins mounted in the last specified sockets, securing'elements passing ping the inner surfaces ofi't he"top and the bottom, and there beingflsock etswhere the flanges join the body portions .of the said strips,- Li -shaped strips "straddled on the upper edges of the front and the baclgjand hlrrvrng sockets alternating With the sockets formed in the strips on the top and the bottom, and" hinge pins passing through the sockets formed by the strips. on the top and the bottom and through "the sockets formed in the U shaped hinge plates orrthe edges ofthe front and tlie Hack, two of the last specified" hingepins at diagQnally opposite the edges of the box being fixedancl twoof the last" specified hinge pins" at therem rining dia onally opposite; edges 'ofthef' box being rernovab1e'. i

In testimony t hat I- claim" the fore 'oin as my 0Wn,"I h-ave hereto aftinedf rny signature in the presence oftWo itnesses; v ASA nnnnisv Witnesses: r

H; A. SPANN, V J. W. CARLTON. 

